The next 6,500 days

By Michael Fraase

Sunday, 09 November 2008 02:18PM CST

Section: Internet

Semantic webIt’s been about 6,500 days since Tim Berners-Lee published the first page on the web. 6,500 days. Everything that’s happened on the web has happened in the last 6,500 days.

Earlier this week, Kevin Kelly spoke briefly—but deeply—at the Web 2.0 Summit on what’s likely to happen with regard to the web during the next 6,500 days.

I’ve followed most of what Kevin Kelly has done for the last 20 years because he’s a completist—he does something until it’s done and then moves on. He thinks deeply and completely. And he’s at it again.

Kelly begins by pointing out that what’s happened on the web in its first 6,500 days is impossible. “There’s not enough money in the world, 6,000 days ago, to accomplish all the things that have happened already,” said Kelly. We have to start thinking differently about what’s impossible, he says.

First, we linked data and shared packets. Then we linked pages on the web and shared those links. Throughout both of these phases we were concerned about the sharing piece of the equation. We’ve mostly gotten over these concerns.

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